Of light appears, and from the walls of Heavn [ 1035 ]

Of fighting Elements, on all sides round [ 1015 ]

In circuit, undetermind square or round,

Following his track, such was the will of Heavn, [ 1025 ]

And like a weather-beaten Vessel holds

Gladly the Port, though Shrouds and Tackle torn;

But now at last the sacred influence

Her fardest verge, ９９ｌｉb•nｅｔand Chaos to retire

With fresh alacritie and force renewd

Into the wilde expanse, and through the shock

And fast by hanging in a golden Chain

With easie intercourse pass to and fro

Of living Saphire, once his native Seat; [ 1050 ]

And more endangerd, then when Argo passd

From Hell continud reaching th utmost Orbe

That Satan with lesshttｐ://wwｗ.99ｌｉb.ｎet toil, and now with ease

Over the dark Abyss, whose boiling Gulf

Of smallest Magnitude close by the Moon.

Movd on, with difficulty and labour hee;

Shoots farr into the bosom of dim Night

Or when Ulysses on the Larbord shunnd

Charybdis, and by th other whirlpool九*九*藏*书*网 steard. [ 1020 ]

Wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light

Accurst, and in a cursed hour he hies. [ 1055 ]

He ceasd; and Satan staid not to reply, [ 1010 ]

As from her outmost works a brokn foe

To tempt or punish mortals, except whom

God and good Angels guard by special grace.

Or in the emptier waste, resembling Air, [ 1045 ]

Environd wins his way九*九*藏*书*网; harder beset

Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain

Of this frail World; by which the Spirits perverse [ 1030 ]

Thither full fraught with mischievous revenge,

With tumult less and with less hostile din, [ 1040 ]

But glad that now his Sea should find a shore,

But hee once past, soon after when man fell,

Weighs his spread wings, at leasure to behold

Thr九-九-藏-书-网ough Bosporus betwixt the justling Rocks:

Tamely endurd a Bridge of wondrous length

A glimmering dawn; here Nature first begins

Pavd after him a broad and beatn way

This pendant world, in bigness as a Starr

With Opal Towrs and Battlements adornd

Farr off th Empyreal Heavn, extended wide

Springs upward like a Pyramid of fire

So he with difficulty and labour hard